Animeswordmaster is the founder, alongside Hina and Kazu, of NKM48. He started off fansubbing the drama “Gegege no Nyobo” as the QC, and over time, he studied Japanese and went to live in Nagoya, Japan, for half a year in order to improve it to an equivalent of N2 status. He has worked as an English tutor for foreign international students for four years and as a Japanese tutor for two years. He currently studies medicine in pursuit of becoming a Physician Assistant (PA).

Hobbies include listening to Japanese music, watching Japanese television shows (especially music shows), watching anime, watching Japanese and Taiwanese dramas, watching movies, learning about Japanese culture, studying Japanese, watching and playing table tennis, basketball (New Orleans Pelicans fan), and American football (New Orleans Saints fan), traveling, eating, cooking, chatting, and playing video games.

He also does commission translating/subtitling separate from the group. Please message him on twitter or NKM48 e-mail for more information.

Just a casual fan who got into the fandom because of a certain pervert squirrel’s smile…fall even deeper after read tons of fanfics before finally decided to help spreading the love of 48 Group by joining this sub-team

Reading & writing fanfic, reading novels, fooling around with my senpais and kouhais at dojo, day dreaming, playing MMORPG, eating spicy foods–my wildest dream is to have a battle with Matsui Rena /lol

Sakura

Timer/Typesetter, Translator, General Co-Manager

Oshimen: Matsui Jurina, SKE HakoOshi. OTP: JuriRara

Arabian

Out of curiosity, I tried to learn subbing looong time ago, surprisingly I fell in love with such a thing and I can’t imagine my life without playing in Aegisub 😀 I like to do other stuff like typesetting in Aegisub. I’m not really good in Japanese but I’m doing my best and I’m working here in order to improve myself. I’m also working with @Girls48Fansub , if you really want to know more about me follow me on Twitter @sakura0chan , I usually talk in Arabic there though.

I’m interested in everything about Japan (Anime/Idol/Drama/TVShow..etc), I like watching Youtubers too, I’m also interested in other groups such as Kpop: FTISLAND and Johnny’s: Johnny’s west & Kisumai.

Biggz

I grew up in Texas, then moved to Arkansas for my senior year of high school. I started watching anime when Voltron came out. My favorite anime was Dragonball Z. Then I moved on to watching other animes. I soon found out that I really like all animes. My kids and I watched Pokemon together when they were younger. Now we watch many different shows. I became really interested in Japan and Japanese culture. One day I was searching for Japanese news on the internet and I saw an article about a song called Heavy Rotation by a band called AKB48. This was in 2011. Since then I have watched and read any and all shows or articles I can find about the AKB48 group.

My hobby is helping my friends here at NKM48 encode the AKBShow. I also like to read science fiction and watch American football.

Ursa

Born in Shanghai, raised up in Singapore, that made me trilingual. Studied Aerospace Engineering and used to be an army medic in the armed forces. Got really into AKB at the end of 2014 and got stuck in the fandom. Specifically, this video got me interested in AKB. I’ve watched 10 years of anime to end up with the current proficiency, maybe I should finally get myself tested for JLPT? I hope to one day live in japan but as the current situation goes, it’s going to be hard. Reach me @ursasolaris on twitter.

Makarin

I found Shoujiki Shougi on YouTube back in April 2015 and started watching AKB 1ji 59fun through to AKBingo!. After spending a month marathoning all available subbed episodes I was drawn in to the fandom, and haven’t looked back since! I joined the team because I wanted to give back to the subbers, and to help spread AKB to a wider audience. Also a big fan of anime, I watch most genres but Slice-of-life is my current favourite. Outside of Japan-related things, I enjoy basketball and am a big fan of Toronto Raptors, and know more about the world of Harry Potter than is socially acceptable.

Hobbies include playing bass and electric guitar, playing basketball, watching anime and Western TV alike and video gaming.

Travis

Quality Control

Oshimen: Kashiwagi Yuki, Takayama Kazumi, Matsui Rena, Oshima Yuko

Singapore

アメイジング！
Currently studying Japanese before I enter University. I stumbled across this whole AKB thing before realizing that I liked laughing at their variety shows. One thing led to another and here I am, trying to do my part by returning to the community

I’m an avid reader. Sometimes I like watching soccer too, but I miss the days when Manchester United used to play good football under the legendary SAF. Oh, and I like to travel solo.

Yonsei

Encoder, Part-time Quality Control

Oshimen: HKT, Nogi and Team 8 oshi though I have some oshis in other groups too!

Philippines

I just love the jpop culture. Actually, I’m a fan of Hello! Project before until I got curious with this up and coming rising group back then and got hooked into it. And here I am now with the team dedicated to share the love for the 48 group.

I’m a fan of asian culture. I love watching dramas, animes and movies. I also listen to different kinds of music. Surfing the net and playing video games. Oh, I’m also into figure collecting and photography.

I was a big fan of K-pop. The first group that I liked was SNSD, until one member left/kicked out, then I started to like Lovelyz. During that time, I liked to play music game on mobile phone, such as SM Superstar and Love Live. Long story short, I felt bored with the music game that I played, so I started to search for another game like that, and I found AKB48 game. Then I started to search for info of the group, and I chose Ricchan as my first oshimen. That’s how I started to like AKB48.
I like playing games on PC or console, also listening to music. I’ve stopped playing Love Live and AKB48 games on my phone, because my data got erased twice. Now I only play idolm@ster on my phone, but most often I only login to the game.

One day, Hina thought to herself ‘Wow, I wish someone was subbing AKB48 Show!, there’s some really interesting stuff here that people are missing.’ And mere days later, by complete coincidence, her friend ASM mentioned ‘I’d be interested in subbing this if I could find a team.’ So Hina offered her slow and self-taught timing skills, and NKM48 subs was born. Reach her on twitter @nagekinohina

Hobbies are sleeping, reading anything she can get her hands on, and writing unnecessarily long posts about idols on tumblr.

Kazu

1st Generation

Co-Founder, Part-time Timer

Oshimen: Iwata Karen (AKB48)

Born in Hong Kong, currently reside in the US.

The first time I saw AKB48, it was in person and I have no idea who they are. I didn’t get interested until I watch AKB0048 (the second time). Coming from a seiyuu (Japanese for voice actress) fan background, that’s how I get into this whole mess. Now I bought blu-rays of concert, vote on the SSK (yet the dream did not happen T_T) and get notification whenever Karen tweets. Started out helping NKM by helping QC (so all the errors from the first couple ones are all my fault) and help timed and suggested translations by applying what I learn about fansubbing when I was in college (a long time ago, when I timed by looking at the timer on the video and put it in a text file). Now I just sit here and loiter, offer snarky remarks advice when possible.

Aside from AKB, I’m a big fan of an underground idol group called Kamen Joshi. I also help subbing their videos and other stuff. A Former anime/game journalist from a certain gaming website. I was born in the Philippines, went to the US when I was 2. Playing video games and watching anime is probably one of my earliest memories as a child. Loved the japanese culture even then and dreamed of going to Japan when i was in elementary school. Self-studies japanese currently and hopefully will get to study formally soon. Started watching AKB after my first trip to Japan 2013-2014, I wondered why their faces are literally everywhere and why they are popular. Fell in love with them after watching like 3 episodes of AKBingo and hearing their songs.

Watching 48G / Kamen Joshi lives, Playing guitar, listening to music, the usual stuff. I do play video games a lot so hit me up if you want to add me on steam or PSN or whatever.
Also, Helping in translating shows for me to share the AKB love to other people.